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06/08/2013

Camus to the Dominicans

“When I think about the
Church’s social teaching, I love to
recall some words that Albert Camus ... addressed to a group of Dominicans who
invited him to come and speak to them at the end of the Second World War. Camus said he would discuss the problem of
evil in life, as he understood it as an agnostic. He closed his talk, as I recall the story,
with this thought: ‘It may not be
possible for us to create a world in which no innocent children suffer, but it
is possible to create a world in which fewer innocent children suffer. If we try to do that, if we look to the
Christians and do not find help, where else will we go?’” --Bryan Hehir, "Wanted: A New Global Order," The Tablet, Dec. 1, 2001,
at 1700, 1702.